The Many Battle Fronts on the War on Sharing

The Many Battle Fronts of The War on Sharing The 3 darker shaded areas indicate file sharing products or networks shutdown, taken over or converted after litigious actions or threats by copyright holders or their proponents. MiniNova Usenet Prmaruy usea for Onine discussions Bue can be usea to share files SPiritual Successor to SUprNova goes online Janurary 2005 By mia 2008 t wil serve over 5 Gilion aownLooAs, LOkiTorrent Founaed Apri 2003 Initiauy resists MPAA cease and desist oraers but eventvauy taken over by MPAA in 2005 November 2009 MiniNova chooses to remove all copyrighted content for which it doesn't have an explicit agreement March 2001 RIAA files suits against individual KaZaA users October 2007 RIAA files lawsuit against usenet.com for KazaA PopuLar Cient created Very 6y Sharman Networs. copyright infringement June 2006 The Pirate Bay "MGM Studios Inc. vs Grokster Ltd." US Supreme Court unanimously finds that defendants Grokster and Founded November 21, 2003 as of Feburary 2011 it is the 86th most PoPULar website on the web. Feburary 2005 A couple of months after resisting cease and desist orders from MPAA LokiTorrent eventually succumbs to mounting litigation September 2005 "UMA vs Sharman" Grokster, Shaman, Morpheus found guilty by Australian Courts and a lack of complicance would eventually force Australia to censor the program StreamCast (Morpheus) can be sued for copyright infringement and Morpheus PopuLar downLOading Cuent causes Sharman to settle for US$100M and make KaZaA a legal-only file sharing program FLOPPY DISKS SUprNova createa by Streamcast ana other Torrent Trackers May 2006 50 Swiss police raid servers and litigation force thepiratebay.org website to go offline for 3 days Grokster Created in 2001, e has been estimatea that 90% of Ehe files sharea on Grokster were tuegauy downLoa 2008 Italian & Danish authorities block access to thepiratebay.org An appeal eventually sees the Italian ban lifted 2004 Barrage of Cease and Desist orders result in the shutdown or takeover of a number of popular BitTorrent Trackers July 2008 "Push Sound Music & Entertainment vs Kuro" 1992 "Don't Copy That Floppy" Anti-copyright Campaign by Software Publishers Association Betamax Video Kuro looses the case and it's creators sentenced April 2009 The Pirate Bay Trial concluded to fines and prison with a guilty verdict - the people behind The Pirate Bay are sentenced with 1 year in prison each, and ordered to pay US$3.6M in damages. Defendants get reduced prison sentences from appeal in 2010 September 2005 "IFPITaiwan vs Kuro" Kuro looses the case the appeal Kuro MP3.com May 2000 "UMG vs MP3.com" MP3.com settles for $200M and forced to shutdown the service VHS Video Launched November 1997 SCour Inc Bankrupt in face was largest COMPACT DISKS (CDS and DVDS) Tech IPO on JULy 1999 Among other uses it aulOwed users to stream their own of COPYRIGHT Janurary 2002 Japanese courts order shutdown ShareReactor files over the temet November 2007 Demonoid shuts down for 5 months citing legal threats from the CRIA 2000 1984 "Metallica vs Napster" Metallica claims Napster guilty of Copyright Infringement "Sony Corp. of America vs Universal City Studios, Inc." The United States Supreme Court rules that making individual copies of complete Television shows for individual or time shifting use constitutes fair use'. Ironically for Sony, this ruling would be used later in many other copyright cases for digital media storage and distribution. File Rogue Japanese Filesharing Software Demonota Torent Inaexer Feburary 2001 "A&M Records Inc. vs Napster" Courts rule against Napster Founaea Apra 2003 by 2008 t WoLa become the wona's secona Largest tracker May 2002 Settles RIAA lawsuit WinMX September 2005 RIAA issues cease and desist July 2001 Court injunction forces Napster to shutdown for undisclosed ammount Feburary 2006 Razorback2 is raided by authoritiesand taken offline Napster a shaddow of its former self Razorback2 Swiss basea eDonkey Inaexing Server Muteua would become disfunctional బ200© Audiogalaxy Created mia 1999 by wizz kia Shawn Fanning Usagea peakea in Feburary 2001 with eXeem Launchea in 2005 ana avertisea as the revenge of SuprNova, however, fais to gain popularity ana is abandonea a few monts Later March 2008 TorrentSpy shuts down citing a hostile legal climate. Mesh Shareaza May 2008 US Courts order TorrentSpy to pay US$110M in damages creators Justin Bunnell and Wes Parker file for bankruptcY 26.4 Million vsers December 2007 Shareaza taken over by Discordia Ltd which is rumoured to be closely affiliated October 2010 Limewire forced to prevent all all file distribution features and/or all functionality of it's software by US federal order SeesPoa AuoMP3 OCheese Eating Surrenaer Monkeys with the RIAA April 2009 SeeqPod forced to sell it's product IP becasue of mounting legal fees against the record industry Limewire Gnutella basea fLe sharing aPPlication Winny Poisonea First MaxOSX KAZA Cuent Internet Relay Chat (Direct Transfer) Created by Ashley Angeu (http://ashleyangel.com/war-on-sharing) This infographic is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. CC SONE RIGHTS RESERVED Kermit TOSU paker The Many Battle Fronts of The War on Sharing The 3 darker shaded areas indicate file sharing products or networks shutdown, taken over or converted after litigious actions or threats by copyright holders or their proponents. MiniNova Usenet Prmaruy usea for Onine discussions Bue can be usea to share files SPiritual Successor to SUprNova goes online Janurary 2005 By mia 2008 t wil serve over 5 Gilion aownLooAs, LOkiTorrent Founaed Apri 2003 Initiauy resists MPAA cease and desist oraers but eventvauy taken over by MPAA in 2005 November 2009 MiniNova chooses to remove all copyrighted content for which it doesn't have an explicit agreement March 2001 RIAA files suits against individual KaZaA users October 2007 RIAA files lawsuit against usenet.com for KazaA PopuLar Cient created Very 6y Sharman Networs. copyright infringement June 2006 The Pirate Bay "MGM Studios Inc. vs Grokster Ltd." US Supreme Court unanimously finds that defendants Grokster and Founded November 21, 2003 as of Feburary 2011 it is the 86th most PoPULar website on the web. Feburary 2005 A couple of months after resisting cease and desist orders from MPAA LokiTorrent eventually succumbs to mounting litigation September 2005 "UMA vs Sharman" Grokster, Shaman, Morpheus found guilty by Australian Courts and a lack of complicance would eventually force Australia to censor the program StreamCast (Morpheus) can be sued for copyright infringement and Morpheus PopuLar downLOading Cuent causes Sharman to settle for US$100M and make KaZaA a legal-only file sharing program FLOPPY DISKS SUprNova createa by Streamcast ana other Torrent Trackers May 2006 50 Swiss police raid servers and litigation force thepiratebay.org website to go offline for 3 days Grokster Created in 2001, e has been estimatea that 90% of Ehe files sharea on Grokster were tuegauy downLoa 2008 Italian & Danish authorities block access to thepiratebay.org An appeal eventually sees the Italian ban lifted 2004 Barrage of Cease and Desist orders result in the shutdown or takeover of a number of popular BitTorrent Trackers July 2008 "Push Sound Music & Entertainment vs Kuro" 1992 "Don't Copy That Floppy" Anti-copyright Campaign by Software Publishers Association Betamax Video Kuro looses the case and it's creators sentenced April 2009 The Pirate Bay Trial concluded to fines and prison with a guilty verdict - the people behind The Pirate Bay are sentenced with 1 year in prison each, and ordered to pay US$3.6M in damages. Defendants get reduced prison sentences from appeal in 2010 September 2005 "IFPITaiwan vs Kuro" Kuro looses the case the appeal Kuro MP3.com May 2000 "UMG vs MP3.com" MP3.com settles for $200M and forced to shutdown the service VHS Video Launched November 1997 SCour Inc Bankrupt in face was largest COMPACT DISKS (CDS and DVDS) Tech IPO on JULy 1999 Among other uses it aulOwed users to stream their own of COPYRIGHT Janurary 2002 Japanese courts order shutdown ShareReactor files over the temet November 2007 Demonoid shuts down for 5 months citing legal threats from the CRIA 2000 1984 "Metallica vs Napster" Metallica claims Napster guilty of Copyright Infringement "Sony Corp. of America vs Universal City Studios, Inc." The United States Supreme Court rules that making individual copies of complete Television shows for individual or time shifting use constitutes fair use'. Ironically for Sony, this ruling would be used later in many other copyright cases for digital media storage and distribution. File Rogue Japanese Filesharing Software Demonota Torent Inaexer Feburary 2001 "A&M Records Inc. vs Napster" Courts rule against Napster Founaea Apra 2003 by 2008 t WoLa become the wona's secona Largest tracker May 2002 Settles RIAA lawsuit WinMX September 2005 RIAA issues cease and desist July 2001 Court injunction forces Napster to shutdown for undisclosed ammount Feburary 2006 Razorback2 is raided by authoritiesand taken offline Napster a shaddow of its former self Razorback2 Swiss basea eDonkey Inaexing Server Muteua would become disfunctional n 2007 Audiogalaxy Created mia 1999 by wizz kia Shawn Fanning Usagea peakea in Feburary 2001 with eXeem Launchea in 2005 ana avertisea as the revenge of SuprNova, however, fais to gain popularity ana is abandonea a few monts Later March 2008 TorrentSpy shuts down citing a hostile legal climate. Mesh Shareaza May 2008 US Courts order TorrentSpy to pay US$110M in damages creators Justin Bunnell and Wes Parker file for bankruptcY 26.4 Million vsers December 2007 Shareaza taken over by Discordia Ltd which is rumoured to be closely affiliated October 2010 Limewire forced to prevent all all file distribution features and/or all functionality of it's software by US federal order SeesPoa AuoMP3 OCheese Eating Surrenaer Monkeys with the RIAA April 2009 SeeqPod forced to sell it's product IP becasue of mounting legal fees against the record industry Limewire Gnutella basea fLe sharing aPPlication Winny Poisonea First MaxOSX KAZA Cuent Internet Relay Chat (Direct Transfer) Created by Ashley Angeu (http://ashleyangel.com/war-on-sharing) This infographic is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. CC SONE RIGHTS RESERVED Kermit TOSU paker The Many Battle Fronts of The War on Sharing The 3 darker shaded areas indicate file sharing products or networks shutdown, taken over or converted after litigious actions or threats by copyright holders or their proponents. MiniNova Usenet Prmaruy usea for Onine discussions Bue can be usea to share files SPiritual Successor to SUprNova goes online Janurary 2005 By mia 2008 t wil serve over 5 Gilion aownLooAs, LOkiTorrent Founaed Apri 2003 Initiauy resists MPAA cease and desist oraers but eventvauy taken over by MPAA in 2005 November 2009 MiniNova chooses to remove all copyrighted content for which it doesn't have an explicit agreement March 2001 RIAA files suits against individual KaZaA users October 2007 RIAA files lawsuit against usenet.com for KazaA PopuLar Cient created Very 6y Sharman Networs. copyright infringement June 2006 The Pirate Bay "MGM Studios Inc. vs Grokster Ltd." US Supreme Court unanimously finds that defendants Grokster and Founded November 21, 2003 as of Feburary 2011 it is the 86th most PoPULar website on the web. Feburary 2005 A couple of months after resisting cease and desist orders from MPAA LokiTorrent eventually succumbs to mounting litigation September 2005 "UMA vs Sharman" Grokster, Shaman, Morpheus found guilty by Australian Courts and a lack of complicance would eventually force Australia to censor the program StreamCast (Morpheus) can be sued for copyright infringement and Morpheus PopuLar downLOading Cuent causes Sharman to settle for US$100M and make KaZaA a legal-only file sharing program FLOPPY DISKS SUprNova createa by Streamcast ana other Torrent Trackers May 2006 50 Swiss police raid servers and litigation force thepiratebay.org website to go offline for 3 days Grokster Created in 2001, e has been estimatea that 90% of Ehe files sharea on Grokster were tuegauy downLoa 2008 Italian & Danish authorities block access to thepiratebay.org An appeal eventually sees the Italian ban lifted 2004 Barrage of Cease and Desist orders result in the shutdown or takeover of a number of popular BitTorrent Trackers July 2008 "Push Sound Music & Entertainment vs Kuro" 1992 "Don't Copy That Floppy" Anti-copyright Campaign by Software Publishers Association Betamax Video Kuro looses the case and it's creators sentenced April 2009 The Pirate Bay Trial concluded to fines and prison with a guilty verdict - the people behind The Pirate Bay are sentenced with 1 year in prison each, and ordered to pay US$3.6M in damages. Defendants get reduced prison sentences from appeal in 2010 September 2005 "IFPITaiwan vs Kuro" Kuro looses the case the appeal Kuro MP3.com May 2000 "UMG vs MP3.com" MP3.com settles for $200M and forced to shutdown the service VHS Video Launched November 1997 SCour Inc Bankrupt in face was largest COMPACT DISKS (CDS and DVDS) Tech IPO on JULy 1999 Among other uses it aulOwed users to stream their own of COPYRIGHT Janurary 2002 Japanese courts order shutdown ShareReactor files over the temet November 2007 Demonoid shuts down for 5 months citing legal threats from the CRIA 2000 1984 "Metallica vs Napster" Metallica claims Napster guilty of Copyright Infringement "Sony Corp. of America vs Universal City Studios, Inc." The United States Supreme Court rules that making individual copies of complete Television shows for individual or time shifting use constitutes fair use'. Ironically for Sony, this ruling would be used later in many other copyright cases for digital media storage and distribution. File Rogue Japanese Filesharing Software Demonota Torent Inaexer Feburary 2001 "A&M Records Inc. vs Napster" Courts rule against Napster Founaea Apra 2003 by 2008 t WoLa become the wona's secona Largest tracker May 2002 Settles RIAA lawsuit WinMX September 2005 RIAA issues cease and desist July 2001 Court injunction forces Napster to shutdown for undisclosed ammount Feburary 2006 Razorback2 is raided by authoritiesand taken offline Napster a shaddow of its former self Razorback2 Swiss basea eDonkey Inaexing Server Muteua would become disfunctional n 2007 Audiogalaxy Created mia 1999 by wizz kia Shawn Fanning Usagea peakea in Feburary 2001 with eXeem Launchea in 2005 ana avertisea as the revenge of SuprNova, however, fais to gain popularity ana is abandonea a few monts Later March 2008 TorrentSpy shuts down citing a hostile legal climate. Mesh Shareaza May 2008 US Courts order TorrentSpy to pay US$110M in damages creators Justin Bunnell and Wes Parker file for bankruptcY 26.4 Million vsers December 2007 Shareaza taken over by Discordia Ltd which is rumoured to be closely affiliated October 2010 Limewire forced to prevent all all file distribution features and/or all functionality of it's software by US federal order SeesPoa AuoMP3 OCheese Eating Surrenaer Monkeys with the RIAA April 2009 SeeqPod forced to sell it's product IP becasue of mounting legal fees against the record industry Limewire Gnutella basea fLe sharing aPPlication Winny Poisonea First MaxOSX KAZA Cuent Internet Relay Chat (Direct Transfer) Created by Ashley Angeu (http://ashleyangel.com/war-on-sharing) This infographic is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. CC SONE RIGHTS RESERVED Kermit TOSU paker The Many Battle Fronts of The War on Sharing The 3 darker shaded areas indicate file sharing products or networks shutdown, taken over or converted after litigious actions or threats by copyright holders or their proponents. MiniNova Usenet Prmaruy usea for Onine discussions Bue can be usea to share files SPiritual Successor to SUprNova goes online Janurary 2005 By mia 2008 t wil serve over 5 Gilion aownLooAs, LOkiTorrent Founaed Apri 2003 Initiauy resists MPAA cease and desist oraers but eventvauy taken over by MPAA in 2005 November 2009 MiniNova chooses to remove all copyrighted content for which it doesn't have an explicit agreement March 2001 RIAA files suits against individual KaZaA users October 2007 RIAA files lawsuit against usenet.com for KazaA PopuLar Cient created Very 6y Sharman Networs. copyright infringement June 2006 The Pirate Bay "MGM Studios Inc. vs Grokster Ltd." US Supreme Court unanimously finds that defendants Grokster and Founded November 21, 2003 as of Feburary 2011 it is the 86th most PoPULar website on the web. Feburary 2005 A couple of months after resisting cease and desist orders from MPAA LokiTorrent eventually succumbs to mounting litigation September 2005 "UMA vs Sharman" Grokster, Shaman, Morpheus found guilty by Australian Courts and a lack of complicance would eventually force Australia to censor the program StreamCast (Morpheus) can be sued for copyright infringement and Morpheus PopuLar downLOading Cuent causes Sharman to settle for US$100M and make KaZaA a legal-only file sharing program FLOPPY DISKS SUprNova createa by Streamcast ana other Torrent Trackers May 2006 50 Swiss police raid servers and litigation force thepiratebay.org website to go offline for 3 days Grokster Created in 2001, e has been estimatea that 90% of Ehe files sharea on Grokster were tuegauy downLoa 2008 Italian & Danish authorities block access to thepiratebay.org An appeal eventually sees the Italian ban lifted 2004 Barrage of Cease and Desist orders result in the shutdown or takeover of a number of popular BitTorrent Trackers July 2008 "Push Sound Music & Entertainment vs Kuro" 1992 "Don't Copy That Floppy" Anti-copyright Campaign by Software Publishers Association Betamax Video Kuro looses the case and it's creators sentenced April 2009 The Pirate Bay Trial concluded to fines and prison with a guilty verdict - the people behind The Pirate Bay are sentenced with 1 year in prison each, and ordered to pay US$3.6M in damages. Defendants get reduced prison sentences from appeal in 2010 September 2005 "IFPITaiwan vs Kuro" Kuro looses the case the appeal Kuro MP3.com May 2000 "UMG vs MP3.com" MP3.com settles for $200M and forced to shutdown the service VHS Video Launched November 1997 SCour Inc Bankrupt in face was largest COMPACT DISKS (CDS and DVDS) Tech IPO on JULy 1999 Among other uses it aulOwed users to stream their own of COPYRIGHT Janurary 2002 Japanese courts order shutdown ShareReactor files over the temet November 2007 Demonoid shuts down for 5 months citing legal threats from the CRIA 2000 1984 "Metallica vs Napster" Metallica claims Napster guilty of Copyright Infringement "Sony Corp. of America vs Universal City Studios, Inc." The United States Supreme Court rules that making individual copies of complete Television shows for individual or time shifting use constitutes fair use'. Ironically for Sony, this ruling would be used later in many other copyright cases for digital media storage and distribution. File Rogue Japanese Filesharing Software Demonota Torent Inaexer Feburary 2001 "A&M Records Inc. vs Napster" Courts rule against Napster Founaea Apra 2003 by 2008 t WoLa become the wona's secona Largest tracker May 2002 Settles RIAA lawsuit WinMX September 2005 RIAA issues cease and desist July 2001 Court injunction forces Napster to shutdown for undisclosed ammount Feburary 2006 Razorback2 is raided by authoritiesand taken offline Napster a shaddow of its former self Razorback2 Swiss basea eDonkey Inaexing Server Muteua would become disfunctional n 2007 Audiogalaxy Created mia 1999 by wizz kia Shawn Fanning Usagea peakea in Feburary 2001 with eXeem Launchea in 2005 ana avertisea as the revenge of SuprNova, however, fais to gain popularity ana is abandonea a few monts Later March 2008 TorrentSpy shuts down citing a hostile legal climate. Mesh Shareaza May 2008 US Courts order TorrentSpy to pay US$110M in damages creators Justin Bunnell and Wes Parker file for bankruptcY 26.4 Million vsers December 2007 Shareaza taken over by Discordia Ltd which is rumoured to be closely affiliated October 2010 Limewire forced to prevent all all file distribution features and/or all functionality of it's software by US federal order SeesPoa AuoMP3 OCheese Eating Surrenaer Monkeys with the RIAA April 2009 SeeqPod forced to sell it's product IP becasue of mounting legal fees against the record industry Limewire Gnutella basea fLe sharing aPPlication Winny Poisonea First MaxOSX KAZA Cuent Internet Relay Chat (Direct Transfer) Created by Ashley Angeu (http://ashleyangel.com/war-on-sharing) This infographic is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. CC SONE RIGHTS RESERVED Kermit TOSU paker The Many Battle Fronts of The War on Sharing The 3 darker shaded areas indicate file sharing products or networks shutdown, taken over or converted after litigious actions or threats by copyright holders or their proponents. MiniNova Usenet Prmaruy usea for Onine discussions Bue can be usea to share files SPiritual Successor to SUprNova goes online Janurary 2005 By mia 2008 t wil serve over 5 Gilion aownLooAs, LOkiTorrent Founaed Apri 2003 Initiauy resists MPAA cease and desist oraers but eventvauy taken over by MPAA in 2005 November 2009 MiniNova chooses to remove all copyrighted content for which it doesn't have an explicit agreement March 2001 RIAA files suits against individual KaZaA users October 2007 RIAA files lawsuit against usenet.com for KazaA PopuLar Cient created Very 6y Sharman Networs. copyright infringement June 2006 The Pirate Bay "MGM Studios Inc. vs Grokster Ltd." US Supreme Court unanimously finds that defendants Grokster and Founded November 21, 2003 as of Feburary 2011 it is the 86th most PoPULar website on the web. Feburary 2005 A couple of months after resisting cease and desist orders from MPAA LokiTorrent eventually succumbs to mounting litigation September 2005 "UMA vs Sharman" Grokster, Shaman, Morpheus found guilty by Australian Courts and a lack of complicance would eventually force Australia to censor the program StreamCast (Morpheus) can be sued for copyright infringement and Morpheus PopuLar downLOading Cuent causes Sharman to settle for US$100M and make KaZaA a legal-only file sharing program FLOPPY DISKS SUprNova createa by Streamcast ana other Torrent Trackers May 2006 50 Swiss police raid servers and litigation force thepiratebay.org website to go offline for 3 days Grokster Created in 2001, e has been estimatea that 90% of Ehe files sharea on Grokster were tuegauy downLoa 2008 Italian & Danish authorities block access to thepiratebay.org An appeal eventually sees the Italian ban lifted 2004 Barrage of Cease and Desist orders result in the shutdown or takeover of a number of popular BitTorrent Trackers July 2008 "Push Sound Music & Entertainment vs Kuro" 1992 "Don't Copy That Floppy" Anti-copyright Campaign by Software Publishers Association Betamax Video Kuro looses the case and it's creators sentenced April 2009 The Pirate Bay Trial concluded to fines and prison with a guilty verdict - the people behind The Pirate Bay are sentenced with 1 year in prison each, and ordered to pay US$3.6M in damages. Defendants get reduced prison sentences from appeal in 2010 September 2005 "IFPITaiwan vs Kuro" Kuro looses the case the appeal Kuro MP3.com May 2000 "UMG vs MP3.com" MP3.com settles for $200M and forced to shutdown the service VHS Video Launched November 1997 SCour Inc Bankrupt in face was largest COMPACT DISKS (CDS and DVDS) Tech IPO on JULy 1999 Among other uses it aulOwed users to stream their own of COPYRIGHT Janurary 2002 Japanese courts order shutdown ShareReactor files over the temet November 2007 Demonoid shuts down for 5 months citing legal threats from the CRIA 2000 1984 "Metallica vs Napster" Metallica claims Napster guilty of Copyright Infringement "Sony Corp. of America vs Universal City Studios, Inc." The United States Supreme Court rules that making individual copies of complete Television shows for individual or time shifting use constitutes fair use'. Ironically for Sony, this ruling would be used later in many other copyright cases for digital media storage and distribution. File Rogue Japanese Filesharing Software Demonota Torent Inaexer Feburary 2001 "A&M Records Inc. vs Napster" Courts rule against Napster Founaea Apra 2003 by 2008 t WoLa become the wona's secona Largest tracker May 2002 Settles RIAA lawsuit WinMX September 2005 RIAA issues cease and desist July 2001 Court injunction forces Napster to shutdown for undisclosed ammount Feburary 2006 Razorback2 is raided by authoritiesand taken offline Napster a shaddow of its former self Razorback2 Swiss basea eDonkey Inaexing Server Muteua would become disfunctional n 2007 Audiogalaxy Created mia 1999 by wizz kia Shawn Fanning Usagea peakea in Feburary 2001 with eXeem Launchea in 2005 ana avertisea as the revenge of SuprNova, however, fais to gain popularity ana is abandonea a few monts Later March 2008 TorrentSpy shuts down citing a hostile legal climate. Mesh Shareaza May 2008 US Courts order TorrentSpy to pay US$110M in damages creators Justin Bunnell and Wes Parker file for bankruptcY 26.4 Million vsers December 2007 Shareaza taken over by Discordia Ltd which is rumoured to be closely affiliated October 2010 Limewire forced to prevent all all file distribution features and/or all functionality of it's software by US federal order SeesPoa AuoMP3 OCheese Eating Surrenaer Monkeys with the RIAA April 2009 SeeqPod forced to sell it's product IP becasue of mounting legal fees against the record industry Limewire Gnutella basea fLe sharing aPPlication Winny Poisonea First MaxOSX KAZA Cuent Internet Relay Chat (Direct Transfer) Created by Ashley Angeu (http://ashleyangel.com/war-on-sharing) This infographic is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. CC SONE RIGHTS RESERVED Kermit TOSU paker The Many Battle Fronts of The War on Sharing The 3 darker shaded areas indicate file sharing products or networks shutdown, taken over or converted after litigious actions or threats by copyright holders or their proponents. MiniNova Usenet Prmaruy usea for Onine discussions Bue can be usea to share files SPiritual Successor to SUprNova goes online Janurary 2005 By mia 2008 t wil serve over 5 Gilion aownLooAs, LOkiTorrent Founaed Apri 2003 Initiauy resists MPAA cease and desist oraers but eventvauy taken over by MPAA in 2005 November 2009 MiniNova chooses to remove all copyrighted content for which it doesn't have an explicit agreement March 2001 RIAA files suits against individual KaZaA users October 2007 RIAA files lawsuit against usenet.com for KazaA PopuLar Cient created Very 6y Sharman Networs. copyright infringement June 2006 The Pirate Bay "MGM Studios Inc. vs Grokster Ltd." US Supreme Court unanimously finds that defendants Grokster and Founded November 21, 2003 as of Feburary 2011 it is the 86th most PoPULar website on the web. Feburary 2005 A couple of months after resisting cease and desist orders from MPAA LokiTorrent eventually succumbs to mounting litigation September 2005 "UMA vs Sharman" Grokster, Shaman, Morpheus found guilty by Australian Courts and a lack of complicance would eventually force Australia to censor the program StreamCast (Morpheus) can be sued for copyright infringement and Morpheus PopuLar downLOading Cuent causes Sharman to settle for US$100M and make KaZaA a legal-only file sharing program FLOPPY DISKS SUprNova createa by Streamcast ana other Torrent Trackers May 2006 50 Swiss police raid servers and litigation force thepiratebay.org website to go offline for 3 days Grokster Created in 2001, e has been estimatea that 90% of Ehe files sharea on Grokster were tuegauy downLoa 2008 Italian & Danish authorities block access to thepiratebay.org An appeal eventually sees the Italian ban lifted 2004 Barrage of Cease and Desist orders result in the shutdown or takeover of a number of popular BitTorrent Trackers July 2008 "Push Sound Music & Entertainment vs Kuro" 1992 "Don't Copy That Floppy" Anti-copyright Campaign by Software Publishers Association Betamax Video Kuro looses the case and it's creators sentenced April 2009 The Pirate Bay Trial concluded to fines and prison with a guilty verdict - the people behind The Pirate Bay are sentenced with 1 year in prison each, and ordered to pay US$3.6M in damages. Defendants get reduced prison sentences from appeal in 2010 September 2005 "IFPITaiwan vs Kuro" Kuro looses the case the appeal Kuro MP3.com May 2000 "UMG vs MP3.com" MP3.com settles for $200M and forced to shutdown the service VHS Video Launched November 1997 SCour Inc Bankrupt in face was largest COMPACT DISKS (CDS and DVDS) Tech IPO on JULy 1999 Among other uses it aulOwed users to stream their own of COPYRIGHT Janurary 2002 Japanese courts order shutdown ShareReactor files over the temet November 2007 Demonoid shuts down for 5 months citing legal threats from the CRIA 2000 1984 "Metallica vs Napster" Metallica claims Napster guilty of Copyright Infringement "Sony Corp. of America vs Universal City Studios, Inc." The United States Supreme Court rules that making individual copies of complete Television shows for individual or time shifting use constitutes fair use'. Ironically for Sony, this ruling would be used later in many other copyright cases for digital media storage and distribution. File Rogue Japanese Filesharing Software Demonota Torent Inaexer Feburary 2001 "A&M Records Inc. vs Napster" Courts rule against Napster Founaea Apra 2003 by 2008 t WoLa become the wona's secona Largest tracker May 2002 Settles RIAA lawsuit WinMX September 2005 RIAA issues cease and desist July 2001 Court injunction forces Napster to shutdown for undisclosed ammount Feburary 2006 Razorback2 is raided by authoritiesand taken offline Napster a shaddow of its former self Razorback2 Swiss basea eDonkey Inaexing Server Muteua would become disfunctional n 2007 Audiogalaxy Created mia 1999 by wizz kia Shawn Fanning Usagea peakea in Feburary 2001 with eXeem Launchea in 2005 ana avertisea as the revenge of SuprNova, however, fais to gain popularity ana is abandonea a few monts Later March 2008 TorrentSpy shuts down citing a hostile legal climate. Mesh Shareaza May 2008 US Courts order TorrentSpy to pay US$110M in damages creators Justin Bunnell and Wes Parker file for bankruptcY 26.4 Million vsers December 2007 Shareaza taken over by Discordia Ltd which is rumoured to be closely affiliated October 2010 Limewire forced to prevent all all file distribution features and/or all functionality of it's software by US federal order SeesPoa AuoMP3 OCheese Eating Surrenaer Monkeys with the RIAA April 2009 SeeqPod forced to sell it's product IP becasue of mounting legal fees against the record industry Limewire Gnutella basea fLe sharing aPPlication Winny Poisonea First MaxOSX KAZA Cuent Internet Relay Chat (Direct Transfer) Created by Ashley Angeu (http://ashleyangel.com/war-on-sharing) This infographic is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. CC SONE RIGHTS RESERVED Kermit TOSU paker